Wednesday, October 24, 2012

MyColor™ inspired by Pantone® Painting Party, Flow Blue China Dresser

Welcome to the MyColor™ inspired by Pantone® Painting Party! A group of awesome DIY bloggers, including myself, have all completed projects using MyColor™ inspired by Pantone® paint. Now we’re giving you the chance to read our tutorials, gather inspiration, have fun and win prizes! Check out my project below and then jump to the other blogs in the party for even more inspiration!

I’m the last stop on the painting party train today, so if you’re just joining us, please head on back to the beginning and see some other great projects from some very talented blog stars.

I’ve been chomping at the bit to jump into this project, but have been waiting for inspiration to hit. I wanted it to have every bit of WOW that it deserved. Check out those gorgeous ornate details, carved pulls and marble tops!

I knew I wanted to do a paint treatment that would highlight all those details. I decided to paint a base coat of white, add petroleum jelly over all the details, then paint a deep and vibrant blue over that. With the distressed white peeking through the details and just the right blue, I envisioned it looking like a piece of flow blue china. (Thank you MyColor, because Medieval Blue worked out to be the PERFECT flow blue!)

Sometimes these ideas are a little more exciting in the planning and disappoint in the executing, but let me tell you, I couldn’t have been more pleased with how this project turned out. I was giddy!

First, when I began working on this piece, I thought I was going to have to recreate some missing moulding with my favorite JB Weld Kwikwood. So imagine my happy dance upon finding all the missing moulding pieces stashed in the drawers! Eeeeeeee!!!

After some repair work, including gluing back on the broken mouldings and removing the broken caster feet, I sprayed on a base coat of white primer. Confession: I used a canned spray primer this time. Why do I feel like I’m somehow cheating? I love Krylon spray primer! It’s fantastic for bleed through control on old pieces like this. One of the best, really!

After the white primer base coat was on, I went back with a cheapo chip bristle brush and dabbed on some petroleum jelly over all the details: the handles, the key holes, the appliques, the corbels, and the moulding.

Then came MyColor’s Medieval Blue! Because of all the nooks and crannies of all those details, I decided it would be most efficient to spray on the paint. The MyColor paint is thick, far too thick for the spray gun to handle, so it took significant thinning to get it to the right consistency for spraying. Thinning of paint to the correct consistency takes some practice with your particular gun, but after a while, it becomes second nature. If I had to guess, I would say I thinned this paint at least 1 part water to 2 parts paint. It might have even been as much as half and half.

The paint started to resist the petroleum jelly as soon as it was sprayed on, and did amazing things as it dried. I started to get very excited. And might have squeeled just a little.

So then I attacked the crackling, resisting paint with the scrubby side of an old sponge. And I definitely squeeled. A lot…

It turned out every bit as wonderfully chippy and authentically aged as I imagined, an ode to Flow Blue China.

The generous folks at MyColor™ inspired by Pantone® would like one of you to win 3 pots of MyColor™ paint to try it out for yourself! If you’d like a chance to win some MyColor™ inspired by Pantone® for your own project, simply comment on my post and share how you’d use MyColor™ inspired by Pantone® in your next project! Feel free to comment on the other blogs in the party too – they’ll all be giving away samples! For a second chance to win, tweet your project ideas to @MyColorPaints using hashtag #PassItOn. Also check out and like the MyColor™ inspired by Pantone® Facebook page to get access to the schedule for today’s parties as well as the rest of the parties going on this month! Share your project ideas there for one more chance to win! Make sure to leave a separate comment on this post for each entry!

The giveaway will be open through next Wednesday, October 31st.

Good luck!

MyColor™ inspired by Pantone® reached out to me to participate in the MyColor™ inspired by Pantone® Painting Party. My post represents my honest experience with MyColor™ inspired by Pantone® paint. I am not being paid for my answers, but I did receive MyColor™ inspired by Pantone® paint to use for this project.

What a vibrant, gorgeous blue, Anne Marie; I can see why you were so pleased with this project! If I were the lucky winner, I'd use this paint on furniture projects for my new farmhouse that we'll be renovating over the course of the next several months. New house = new furniture projects. :) Thanks for the chance to win!

I literally gasped when I saw the after. I usually don't favor this much choppiness, but for this piece and with that color, it just works! It is beautiful. I would be so thrilled if I were to win some samples! I have this great big ugly desk sitting in my office that is screaming for some gorgeous color!

Wow, petroleum jelly, so smart! I've never heard of that before. I've been wanting paint some found play room chairs and pictures frames for a gallery wall on the "art" side of the room. These paints would be perfect! Thanks :)

That piece turned out just amazing! Love the medieval blue! I would use some free samples for a makeover of a giant china cabinet in my living room, and a slew of future blog projects. What a great giveaway!Tuula

You are very brave to put this bold color on such a beautiful l piece of furniture. But it is REALLY pretty. I love the petroleum jelly trick. It seems as if it would allow more control over the chippiness. I would try this on a beautiful vanity I'm going to make into a desk.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this vanity makeover! The color is stupendous, and making me want to paint with blues! I have an armoire I am dying to paint and your petroleum jelly trick will work fabulously! Thanks for sharing. ;-D

Congratulations! You're the winner of the 3 pots of MyColor Paints! Please email me with your mailing address and your color choices from this page: http://mycolorpaints.com/our-colors/ as soon as possible. You can get 3 off the same color, or three different colors. Just let me know your preference. Thanks for reading and commenting!

Hey friend! How's it? I think you should at least load a couple images of new stuff in Livy Lou's for a new post. Just for me? Pretty please? I'll post some pics of my kiddos on fb and you do a new post here. Deal? :))

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About Me

Ann Marie is a Prescott, AZ based furniture and home decor revamping mamma, making cast-off, out-of-date, or otherwise down-trodden furniture fresh, stylish, and lovely once more. She restores the outdated to useful beauty and help give you new eyes to see the potential in things you have in your own home or might have passed by at a thrift store, yard sale, or (gasp!) dumpster. :) She peddles her lovelies at Livy Lou's Boutique in downtown Prescott, AZ.